The church of Panagia Gorgona
The beautiful little church of the Panagia Gorgona (The Mermaid Madonna) or also known as Panagia Ton Psaradon (The Madonna of the Fishermen) was made famous in the wonderful book ???The Mermaid Madonna by Stratis Myrivilis, one of Lesvos and Greece’s greatest writers. The church is in Skala Sykamnias (Eastern Lesvos) and took its name from a wall painting by an anonymous folk painter which depicts the Virgin with a mermaid s tail in a moving amalgam of religion and folk tradition
